Cuomo warns perp behind Jewish Children’s Museum bomb threat: ‘We will find you’
Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn evacuated Thursday
The Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights was evacuated at 9:30 a.m. Thursday morning after the organization received an email saying several pipe bombs had been hidden in the building.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in Brooklyn on Thursday for another announcement, rushed to the scene to meet with museum founder Devorah Halberstam, Jewish leaders and law enforcement officials. He called the threat “repugnant to the concept of the state of New York.”
“I want to warn the people who are behind these, when we find you, and we will find you, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That I can promise you,” Cuomo said in a videotaped news conference. “In the meantime, I call on all New Yorkers to double our efforts of unity and tolerance.”
Halberstam said, “I think there’s nothing left for me to say other than yes, it is repugnant. It’s a horrible thing that happened to us today. But we remain strong. We will be open for business as soon as they do a clean sweep of the museum. We want all the children to not only come, to continue coming every day.”